The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank ...

Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees, the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union ...

With cheers of surprise and shocked faces, Bundestag MPs narrowly rejected a migration bill on Friday pushed by the ...

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to ...

The bill had the support of both Germany's conservatives and the far-right Alternative for Germany, which are leading in the ...

Bill calling for tougher rules on migration widely criticised for undermining ‘firewall’ against working with far right.

A vote in Germany's national parliament (Bundestag) has led to fears that the firewall supposedly separating mainstream <a target=_blank href=http ...

Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, had sought to restrict immigration rules with the support of the Alternative for ...

Germany's Social Democrats are doubling down on criticism of conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz, after a controversial bill on tighter migration policy tabled by his bloc was narrowly ...

Germany's parliament faced the possibility of passing a law due to far-right support for the first time in post-war history, ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz suffered a shock setback in his bid to become chancellor after his effort to push ...